Defective Rotary Blade?
#32
Originally Posted by Moon Holiday
Defective blades? I know many on this board rave about rotary carpet blades from Harbor Freight because of their great price, so I bought six packs (45mm) and split them with my sister. After using the first blade one time, I tossed it out because it cut worse than the blade I was replacing. Then I thought it was probably just one defective blade, so I tried another and it was just as lousy at cutting. Not buying blades from them again!
#33
Originally Posted by sewwhat85
check to make sure you did not put 2 blades in that has happened to me
#35
My cutter is broken :((. The blade will not stay out so I can cut with it. The least amount of pressure I apply causes the blade to pop back up into the protective position.
I tried to hold the slide switch in place with my thumb while cutting but I just don't have enough strength in my hand/arm to do that.
Guess it's a new cutter for me.
I tried to hold the slide switch in place with my thumb while cutting but I just don't have enough strength in my hand/arm to do that.
Guess it's a new cutter for me.
#36
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Just a possible suggestion, is the blade put in backwards, sometimes that happens to me and i turn it aorund and it works. Another thought, could you have two blades in at one time. If you remember where you bought it, I'd take it back.
#39
Originally Posted by sewwhat85
check to make sure you did not put 2 blades in that has happened to me
#40
Just a note: I too bought a large quantity of blades on ebay quite a few years ago. I have found that it's possible to put more blades in the containers then originally in there, so I took and moved all my new blades to one of the Olfa packages and marked with masking tape the empty one as used. That way I can still keep the older blades to use for cutting paper or junk stuff and have my new blades all in one place.
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